| Justices Chief Justice Adele Hedges Justice John Anderson Justice Richard Edelman Justice Wanda Fowler Justice Eva M. Guzman Justice J. Harvey Hudson Justice Charles W. Seymore Justice Kem Thompson Frost Justice Leslie Brock Yates |
| The Fourteenth Court of Appeals is one of fourteen intermediate courts of appeals in Texas. Its geographic jurisdiction overlaps with that of the First Court of Appeals, which also sits in Houston. Both courts are located in the building that houses the South Texas College of Law. These courts hear both civil and criminal appeals and original mandamus proceedings. Cases are randomly assigned to either. |
| The 14th Court of Appeals is best known for its decision in Lawrence v. Texas, in which the court, sitting en banc, rejected a constitutional challenge to Texas' sodomy statute. The U.S. Supreme Court later reversed in its precedent-setting decision expanding the right to privacy to consensual homosexual conduct. Lawrence v. Texas (02-102) 539 U.S. 558 (2003), 41 S. W. 3d 349, reversed and remanded |
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| June 2006 Opinions from the Fourteenth Court of Appeals in Houston (Tex.App.- Houston [14th Dist.] 2006) |